Higher-yielding dividend stocks are often higher-risk investments. Those bigger payouts offer investors tempting potential rewards for putting their money into a company with a higher risk profile.

However, some high-yield stocks provide investors with the best of both worlds -- low-risk, high-yielding payouts. Energy Transfer (NYSE: ET), Enterprise Products Partners (NYSE: EPD), and (NYSE: MPLX) are in that group. Because of that, these master limited partnerships (MLPs) can help investors energize their income streams.

At its current share price, Energy Transfer's dividend yields 8.7%. That's more than 6 times the S 500's roughly 1.4% dividend yield.

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Source Fool.com